If a new poll is to be believed, Donald Trump has earned the support of one of the most coveted voting demographics.
After surveying 931 members of the armed forces, researchers found that out of all the candidates running for president in both parties, Trump was the preferred choice for the majority of them. A solid 27% of the survey’s respondents said he was their favorite candidate, with his closest rival being socialist Democrat Bernie Sanders who came in at 22%.
More specifically, Trump enjoyed high levels of support from the Army and Marines, both of which saw 30% of respondents listing him as their choice. Although he wasn’t the preferred choice of respondents in the Air Force or Navy, he still had significant levels of support, with the branches having 23.58% and 22.35% of their members favoring him respectively.
The numbers are a major boon to Trump, who has been hounded by critics for his relative lack of foreign experience. Earning such impressive levels of support from servicemen will undoubtedly help him mute such attacks.
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Although Trump may lack traditional foreign policy credentials, the men and women of the military seem to think that he has a strong grasp on the subject and can be counted on to look out for the country’s best interests. Gaining the support of such an esteemed group alone is a worthy accomplishment for anyone seeking the presidency:
“The data seems to indicate that the GOP national security establishment’s attempt to discredit Trump’s foreign policy credibility has failed — at least as far as servicemembers are concerned.
Trump’s hardline stances on national security issues appear to have attracted dedicated support from members of the military, though several military officials have complained about his aggressive statements on torture and the killing of terrorists’ families, which Trump had to walk back.
Officers surveyed still favor Trump, albeit by a smaller margin than regular enlisted troops. Officers ranked Trump first with 21 percent support and Cruz second with 18 percent.
And even though Sanders has also been perceived as weak on foreign policy, that fact hasn’t hurt his polling numbers among servicemembers.
Despite Sen. Marco Rubio’s attempts to prioritize foreign policy in his platform and despite the Republican national security establishment essentially throwing all of its might behind his campaign, he ranks second to last in the survey.”
Source: Daily Caller
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Paula Starnes No, Trump mocked McCain’s POW status. That’s what he did. It wasn’t taken out of context. The other 7 POWs have no relevance to this discussion.
Republicans always say that if you think college tuition should be free or that healthcare should be a single payer system that all taxpayers pay into and use, that means you’re looking for handouts. That’s nonsense. I simply recognize that 1) College and health care should not put people into crippling debt. 2) That a college degree is about as valuable as a high school education 50 years ago and so should be publically funded like K-12 public schools. 3) Having a highly educated workforce improves our economy. 4) People that are not worried about how much health care will put them in debt will see a doctor sooner and will lead to cheaper treatments and better health outcomes.
Paula Starnes I’m not sure how I’m “caught in my own stupidity”. Are you accusing McCain of war crimes in Vietnam?
So vets would rather vote in a woman personally responsible for the death of four? A woman responsible for leaking classified information. A woman being investigated by several agencies.
Bernie lost already douche. I know it’s hard for you to grasp. Ignorance is not realizing socialism is a failing system. Ignorance is bringing up successful socialist countries without realizing they have less than ten million people willing to work and support each other.
An embarrassment is what the president you voted for has done the last 8 years. He’s done plenty to shame us around the world. He’s crippled the U.S. Thanks to you and all the others who voted for him. We need a president who has the balls to do something and doesn’t release terrorists and divide the country.
Maybe you need to educate yourself more. You can’t realize your candidate lost already. You also can’t realize that Trump is by and large the winner of the population. I know there are a lot of uneducated people out there, but republicans aren’t the ones rioting and causing havoc around the country.
Josh Strigle i’m gonna tell you Donald Trump has a hell of a lot more qualifications of being president then Obama would ever dream of Mr. Trump has been a very successful businessman and owns a lot more than what you could ever dream to ever achieve in your little stupid life
Heidi GC Government is not a business and if it was, you wouldn’t want someone who has so many failed business ventures and has lead his businesses to bankruptcy 4 times.
The amount of money he has doesn’t mean he’s qualified. Paris Hilton
John Dowdy, a massive 1.1% raise. I was so excited… Obama has ruined morale across the ranks.
Insults his marines regularly, disgraced the entire Army with the bergdahl trade, and called that deserter a POW, and now so does the media (by definition, bergdahl was never a POW, because he was not captured while performing his duty).
At least trump respects the military, and recognizes PFC bergdahl for what he is… and feels his punishment should be as severe as 95% of the army does….
Joshua Howe Trump does not respect the military. He insulted John McCain’s POW status and said he will convince the military to commit war crimes. How is that respecting the military???
Josh Strigle, how exactly is that pos socialist the best? Take more money in taxes, and keep downsizing? Sanders is a joke, and can’t even beat a known unethical liar and criminal. Lol.
Obama has done more to bring down all branches of our military and so many military jobs have been turned into civilian jobs to save money and so many have dislike this president from the beginning.